Hello SwitchedON! Crew. Dan here with today’s Signals on l how to live extraordinary lives. With me is Terry Tucker, the author of Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life . A great quote from Terry in the Episode: “I am not afraid to die because I've lived. We are all going to die, but we are not all going to live!” Come Join us and Enjoy the show!

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3 Great Signals From Terry

1) Lead a life of significance

2) Use the pain as fuel to make you stronger

3) Fight for your life

The One Thing: Control your Mind, or it will control you

The Cauliflower Moment:. There's no normal, there's just life, and get on with living years. You know, I was kind of in that I just want to lead a normal life, but I didn't know what a normal life was, but I'd like to not have cancer. So here are the cards I've been dealt, I've got to play those, I've got to play those to the best of my ability

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Welcome back to The switched on podcast today we have Terry Tucker with us. He is an author cancer survivor and collegiate athlete, and more. Welcome Terry excited to have you on the show today. Let's dive in and have you start by giving us a bit more insight on your background,

Terry Tucker 0:37

appreciate you having me on the show. I was born and raised in Chicago, I am the oldest of three boys I am six foot eight, I have a brother who's six foot seven, who pitched for the University of Notre Dame. I have a brother who's six foot six was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers and my dad was six foot five so if you sat behind our family at church. Prayer students you were going to see anything that was going on whatsoever. And we had a mom who always wanted us to sit in the very front row, very front Pew at church so I'm sure there's a lot of people that didn't get a whole lot out of specifically basketball was an important part of my life, and I attended college at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on a basketball scholarship, despite having three knee surgeries in high school when I graduated from college, I moved home to find a job I was the first person in my family to graduate from college and I was all set to make my mark on the world was my newly obtained Business Administration degree, I look back now and realize what a knucklehead I was about business. Fortunately, I was able to find that first job in the marketing department at the corporate headquarters of Wendy's international the hamburger chain, but unfortunately I ended up living with my parents for the next three and a half years, as I help my mother care for my grandmother and my father who were both dying of different forms of cancer in my professional career, I've been a marketing executive as I said at Wendy's I've been a hospital administrator, customer service manager and police officer. I spent three and a half years as an undercover narcotics investigator. I was a SWAT team hostage negotiator, a school security consultant, a high school basketball coach, most recently a motivational speaker and author and then for the last nine years, a cancer warrior. My wife and I have been married for 27 years and our only child, a daughter is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, and is an officer the newly created United...